LAURA FURMAN is the author of two novels, Tuxedo Park and The Shadow Line; two short story collections, The Glass House and Watch Time Fly; and, with Elinore Standard an anthology, Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, House & Garden, GQ, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review. She was the founding editor of American Short Fiction and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She and her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son make their home in Austin, Texas.